[BC] RE: Mackie & Berhinger Mixers For A Radio Station

[Chris Oradat]

If you need muting, DM Engineering 
(http://www.dmengineering.com/pages/products.htm) has a box that handles 
the channel On/Off logic via the insert jack, and has enough relays to 
do speaker muting.  Available for about $80 from most broadcast supply 
houses, or you could build you own very easily.

Tom Taggart wrote:
> I used a Mackie 1402 (???--smallest slide fader mixer they make) for 
> about a year on our one FM. (I'm at home, the mixer is on a shelf at 
> the station, so I am gong by memory)
>
> 1. OK for the price, I just needed it to mix a satellite feed and a 
> computer feed, so I wasn't worried about muting, or even monitor feed.
>
> 2. Some channels & faders are stereo, so you don't need a gizmo to run 
> two at once. This is a 14 channel, memory is either 4 or 6 were 
> stereo, quite adequate for my needs.
>
> 3. Had both balanced and unbalanced outputs. Balanced was a tad low.
>
> 4.RF: No problems. Used in control room 250 feet from bottom bay of a 
> 4 bay FM running 17 kw ERP. (The building is a Faraday shield--chicken 
> wire in the walls bonded to a perimeter ground.)

-- 
Chris Oradat
Broadcast Technician
608-755-8370

WCLO / WJVL Janesville
WBKV / WBWI West Bend
WRJN / WEZY Racine